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Knowing More About Heart Disease

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Heart disease has several variations such as hypertension, congenital heart disease, heart infection, and disorders of the heart valves. It doesn’t grow all at once but increasing slowly and insidiously and a few patient knows and realizes  that the disease is forming. It is true that exercise, a healthy diet or low cholesterol can prevent the various forms of this disease. But, some types of heart disease are not the result of unhealthy lifestyle habits. Viruses can bring heart diseases on a new baby born.

The most risk factors that cause heart disease are high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, obesity, lack of physical activity, heredity, gender and age. Most of them can be reduced by controlling high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, obesity, and inactivity. Moreover,  some factors also contribute in increasing the risk. They are stress, sex hormones, birth control pills and alcohol.

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Is Cholesterol bad for our healthy?

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When it concerns about healthy, it is commonly heard the word cholesterol. Most adult usually take cholesterol test regularly. It relates to weight and the percentage of body fat in the body. Then, it will be a written result on normal cholesterol range. However, they may not really understand cholesterol and how it works in the body.

Cholesterol is commonly seen as a scary word. Most people think cholesterol as something that leads to health problem such as heart attack. It is actually an important product in our bodies. Cholesterol functions as vital role for human beings. Cholesterol is a waxy material that is produced in your liver. You can also find cholesterol in many products including meats and dairy products. The body needs cholesterol to burn fat, produce vitamin D, and help digest fat. But, most people eat way too much cholesterol which increasing the number of   cholesterol in the blood stream.

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